(Department of Justice, 2009) That is approximately 18,000 kilograms of cocaine per year in the city of Chicago. The Los Zetas were founded in 1999 by the Mexican Army’s elite forces that left the army and joined with another organization (Gulf Cartel). In 2010, the Los Zetas defected from the Gulf cartel and created their own organization. “The U.S. government says Los Zetas is “the most technologically advanced, sophisticated and dangerous cartel operating in Mexico.” (CNN, 2009) In November, 2010 a drug dealer that was supplied by the Los Zetas Cartel was sentenced to 210 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than
Drug Trafficking in the United States Shiann Allshouse ENG122: English Composition II Marsha Beckwith-Howard November 4, 2012 Drug Trafficking in the United States Drug law enforcement agencies face daily challenges in protecting the country's borders from drug traffickers trying to smuggle illegal drugs into the United States. This has been an ongoing problem for many years. Despite the efforts of the law enforcement, the amount of illegal drugs coming into the United States continues to grow. The two most common illegal drugs that drug traffickers try to get pass the border are methamphetamine and crack cocaine. The various ways of transporting the illegal drugs into the United States include concealing
Drug Trafficking in the United States Jason Reed ENG122 English Composition Instructor McKenna September 23, 2012 Drug Trafficking in the United States Over forty years ago, the world declared the war on drugs. Today, after decades of failing to control drug consumption, the drug problem has emerged and allowed violent drug traffickers to expand their networks and corrupt even more Mexican and American government officials. The use of violence by traffickers against authorities and witnesses represents a major challenge to the neighboring countries as the ultimate guarantor of law and order within their borders. This in turn, has allowed drug cartels to move illegal narcotics freely throughout Mexico in an attempt to smuggle them
He was charged with cultivation, possession and sale of marijuana . He was guilty and Mick knew it. But there were the crack in the state’s case. It was how the state came to the evidence. Mick knew that the deputies had invaded Casey’s privacy while gathering the probable cause to raid the ranch.
Senator released an extensive report on HSBC on investigations of money laundering for Mexican drug cartels and moving cash for international banks with ties to terrorists. The nature of the scandal, HSBC provides money laundering service to Mexican drug cartels in Mexico by allowing them to make illegal transactions, such as deposit large amount of cash without supervise or oversight the transactions; including move money from the Mexican bank units to the U.S. bank units. Also, HSBC cycled money from Iran and Syria through the US branches in violation of the United States sanctions. Per the senate investigative committee, Mexican drug cartels transferred an approximately 7 billion dollar to the U.S. between 2007 and 2008. Since the bank has permitted billions to be laundered, it is now faces penalties of billions of dollars.
Cartels are the suppliers of drugs to gangs in and out of prison. If our government doesn’t want crime in the streets, then “stop the cartels”. Horrifying things have happened to people who have stood in the way of the cartels. Murder, slaughter, and torture are mainly it. I am against the murdering of innocent people.
Gatsby smuggles liquor across the border to sell them. “I found out what your ‘drug stores’ were. He turned to us and spoke rapidly. He and this wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That’s one of his little stunts.
Furthermore, criminal groups operating from Mexico smuggle cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, amphetamines, and marijuana into the United States. Besides criminal groups based abroad, domestic organizations cultivate, produce, manufacture, or distribute illegal drugs such as marijuana, methamphetamine, phencyclidine (PCP), and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). By growing sinsemilla, the seedless flowering tops of marijuana plants, domestic cannabis growers are able to provide high potency marijuana that easily competes with other illegal drugs. With demand for methamphetamine remaining high, especially in the West and Midwest, so does the number of illicit domestic laboratories that supply methamphetamine to a growing number of
The police towards this goal such as: tapping phone line to potential criminal or drug dealers. Various sting operation trying to intervene and stop the distribution of drugs before entering our street and cites. My belief is that, with these many helpful tactics in place, it is very difficult to totally eliminate the distribution of all drugs in our society. The Cocaine Cowboys was an illegal
There are ways that can help this problem be controlled. There is a number of facts concluding how drugs came here and are affecting other countries as well as ours. There are also times that I have actually witnessed some instances of drug trafficking myself in bad neighborhood that I have visited, also neighborhoods where I have lived that are very dangerous due to drugs being distributed in that area. In about 1969 there were high amounts of marijuana entering the U.S. through Mexico, the U.S. Customs Department starts an Operation Intercept system. Sometime in 1973 Richard Nixon Started the Drug Enforcement Agency, to take a more stronger control on eliminating drugs and the distributes.